2019 Volume 25 Issue 60 Pages 833-838
The purpose of this experimental study is to clarify dimensions of toilets in a private room in facilities for the elderly. The method is the motion analysis, and the number of participants was ten people.
①When dimensions of toilets were less than 900mm in depth and 1500mm in frontage, it is impossible to do excretion assistance. ②When a wheelchair was placed perpendicular to a toilet, the dimensions that can be assisted without burden was 1300mm in depth and 1800mm in frontage. And when a wheelchair was placed parallel, it was 1400mm in depth and 2000mm in frontage.
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